drbonn's Gallery : Fusibleshttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/g/drbonn/tags/Fusibles/default.aspxTags: FusiblesenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)XC Skier on Gunn Ranch Roadhttp://www.quiltersclubofamerica.com/media/p/275753.aspxSun, 30 Oct 2011 18:47:52 GMT722ae0af-0843-4f69-80d5-ea157d187469:275753Donna B6<p>This landscape quilt was made from a picture of our son, Mark, skiing on Gunn Ranch Road in the beautiful Methow Valley of Washington State.&nbsp; It was my second landscape quilt and the first from a photo.&nbsp; I greatly enlarged the photo and then traced the basic fabric layout on tissue paper.&nbsp; I then made a second tracing to be cut up for fabric &quot;templates&quot;.&nbsp; This was done with raw edge applique using Steam-a-Seam 2.&nbsp; The two largest trees were made with strips of fabric sewn on in groups from the tree bottom up...to make them loose, ie like branches.&nbsp; I did a lot of thread painting on this piece to represent late winter branches and twigs along the banks and hillsides; the groomed snow and tracks of the ski trail, and the rocks and boulders on the hillsides.&nbsp; This quilt received both a Blue Ribbon and a Grand Champion Ribbon at our 2011&nbsp;Okanogan County Fair in the free-motion embroidery category.&nbsp; </p>